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A bed for immigrants in Gjadra costs more than a large apartment in an average Italian city: over 153 thousand euros per person.
This is the discovery of the "Trattenuti" platform, carried out by ActionAid in collaboration with the Department of Political Science of the University of Bari, which for the first time makes public complete data on the costs of administrative detention in Italy and in Albanian centers.
In the Gjadri center, 400 beds have been built by March 2025, while contracts worth 74.2 million euros have been signed for this project and the auxiliary structure in Shëngjin, often through direct procedures. The result: one active bed has cost over 153,000 euros.
"Operation Albania is the most costly, inhumane and futile instrument in the history of Italian migration policies," denounces ActionAid, citing the most recent extreme example of 2024, when the Prefecture of Rome paid 570 thousand euros for just five days of activity of the centers, at a cost of 114 thousand euros per day to hold 20 people, all of whom were released within a few hours.
At the same time, the administrative detention system is operating at only 46% of capacity, while protests, delays and damage have left 263 empty places out of 1,164 effective ones.
Although these centers are officially intended to facilitate the deportation process, the figures speak to the contrary: in 2024, out of 6,164 people admitted to the centers, only 2,576 were deported – 41.8%, the lowest level since 2014. Only 10.4% of those with deportation orders were deported by Italian CPRs.
Also alarming is the increase in detained asylum seekers, who account for over 45% of all detainees in 2024. A fifth of them had not yet received a decision on removal, but were detained solely due to their asylum application.
" The use of detention as an instrument of asylum policy is a paradigm shift, which calls into question the objectives of such an aggressive tool against fundamental rights ," warns Giuseppe Campesi, professor at the University of Bari.
The Italian judiciary has begun to react: releases for lack of confirmation or extension have increased from 9% in 2021 to 29% in 2024. In the last two years alone, 186 people have been released for illegal detention, among them 89% asylum seekers in the new Ctra centers.
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